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A team of police officers dedicated to targeting gangs is taking to London's streets to try to tackle knife crime in a week that has seen a spate of stabbings. Murdered: Shakilus Townsend Police announced the creation of the 75-man taskforce on the same day that another teenager died after being attacked by a masked gang. Shakilus Townsend, 16, pleaded for his mother as he lay wounded in the street in Thornton Heath, south London. Officers said they were hunting three black teenagers who ambushed Shakilus, known as Shaki to his friends, stabbing him in the chest and beating him around the head. The youths had pulled up their hoods and covered their faces in bandanas for the planned attack. They also want to trace a black girl, aged in her mid-teens and wearing a floral dress, who stood back with up to eight others and watched... [read full story]
